Archive for April, 2007
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Pascha Thursday and Great Friday
We spend almost the entire day in the church on Thursday and Friday, so I can’t write much. Below are two great links with excerpts from the church fathers. If you want a peak at what our service is like, we will be streaming live video and audio from 8am to 6pm EST [...]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Video on OrthodoxSermons.org
Starting this week, we are uploading sermons to Google Video and embedding them on OrthodoxSermons.org. We have posted videos for the “Treasures of Holy Week” retreat and for the sermons throughout Holy Pascha.
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Cursing, Teaching, Betrayal and Perfume
Monday – Jesus cleanses the temple and curses the fig tree; God prepares those who will accept His sacrifice.
Let us not dry up a fig tree which may yet bear fruit, nor condemn it as useless and cumbering the ground, when possibly the care and diligence of a skillful gardener may yet heal it. [...]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
New Pascha Presentation from Connecticut
Virgin Mary & Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church Of Connecticut has released PowerPoint files for the Holy Pascha week based off the book they produced. All presentations are in English, Coptic and Arabic and can be run from any machine with Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint viewer or OpenOffice.org.
You can get the individual PowerPoint files from [...]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Reliving with Jesus
I’ve always taken the Holy Pascha week as a time to commemorate the events Christ went through before His Crucifixion, but this year it has really taken on a new meaning for me. Starting off with the retreat, and throughout all the readings this week, Christ has reinforced the concept that we must relive [...]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Second Streaming Server
Live streaming is gaining popularity this year at St. Mark’s. On Palm Sunday, we had 145 simultaneous live viewers running a 340 Kbps (320×240) live stream.
Unfortunately, the bandwidth on our dedicated server began to choke and users were complaining that the service was a little choppy. We had already ordered a second server [...]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Palm Sunday
What an amazing day in the church! We start off celebrating Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem with song, praise and procession and we conclude with a funeral. Whose funeral you may ask? Our own funeral – more on this in a bit.
Christ, riding in on a donkey and a colt was greeted [...]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Lazarus Saturday
On the Saturday before Palm Sunday, the church commemorates the raising of Lazarus.
The resurrection of Lazarus is a prophesy not only the resurrection of the Lord, eight days later, but also the resurrection of all the righteous on the last day, which begins the “eighth day” of eternity.The resurrection of Lazarus is the last and [...]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
St. Augustine on Pascha
This Holy Pascha Week, I will be sharing tidbits garnished from reliving the week with Christ through the service readings, Treasures of the Fathers and Jesus: A Dialogue with the Saviour, this year’s choice for the book club.
St. Augustine explains why the Orthodox church uses the term Pascha:
Pascha (Passover) is not, as some think, a [...]
